Summary: In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRE

Summary: In the near future, the Navy develops a stealth fighter plane. On board piloting the jet is an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat maneuvers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Stealth 2005

Summary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIO

Summary: In the spring of 1942, German troops advanced deep into the Soviet Union en route to Stalingrad. Hitler seriously misjudged the tenacity of the Red Army and was convinced that the city could be conquered before winter. Ordinarily foot soldiers, inadequately clothed and without sufficient food, struggled just to stay alive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN STA

Nighy, Bill

Summary: A family copes with the shocking revelation that a husband intends to divorce his wife after twenty-nine years of marriage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2020

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOP

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOP

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOP

Summary: Bert Kreischer rose to fame as a stand-up comedian known as The Machine, and in his signature set he recounts his true experience with Russian mobsters while on a booze-soaked college trip. Now, 23 years later, that trip has come back to haunt him as he and his estranged father are kidnapped back to Russia by the mob to atone for something they say he did. Together, Bert and his father must...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAC

Summary: A live action version based on Kenneth Grahame's classic tale about a Badger, Mole, and Rat.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MR.

Menochet, Denis

Summary: When glamorous Evelyne Ducat suddenly disappears during a blizzard in rural France, the lives of five people, each harboring their own secrets, become intertwined in their connection to her disappearance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2022

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONL

Engel, Morris

Summary: A seven-year-old boy hides out in Coney Island after being tricked into believing he has killed his brother; the dating life of a widow in New York City is seen through the eyes of both her and her young daughter's; a struggling photographer delays his wedding until he is financially secure, frustrating his fiancaee; follows the relationships of a young woman living with a group of hippies in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2021

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIT

Summary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME

Segel, Jason

Summary: A man who lives with his parents goes out with his brother for the day and attempts to stalk his unfaithful wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JEF

Segel, Jason

Summary: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and other Muppets join with friends to save their theater from Tex Richman who is scheming to acquire the property, tear down the theater, and drill for oil.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MUP

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MUP

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUP RATED PG

Summary: The classic saga of King Arthur and those around him in the Court-- the knights, his Queen, and the wizard Merlin. Focuses on the rise of Christian civilization out of the Dark Ages.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY EXC

Summary: About a celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith in a real life David vs Goliath story, pitting Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan in 1971. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse. Between an impassioned Japanese translator called Aileen urging him to go and a much-needed commission from "Life"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Minamata

Wagner, Richard

Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RIN

Summary: Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUS

Miguel, Blondin

Summary: A young African refugee is saved from deportation by a kindly old man, who shines shoes for a living, and his tight-knit community.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HAV

Summary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAN

Summary: The Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon comes to the big screen. Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim part of herself. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well-baked pie.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUSICALS WAI
2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUS

Summary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEV

Summary: At the height of international tension between America and Iran, Kevin Sheppard, a charismatic African-American basketball player accepts an offer to play professional basketball in Iran. What begins as a desire to "explore the unknown" ends in an emotional roller-coaster as he forms an unlikely alliance with three young Iranian women against the backdrop of revolutionary social upheaval in Iran.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IRA